Give the success of Sony’s summer blockbuster The Smurfs, which has brought int $135 million worldwide since its release on August 29, it’s not surprising that the studio has greenlit a sequel to the CG live-action/animation hybrid. Sony Pictures has announced that it plans to release The Smurfs 2 on August 2, 2013.

The film’s original producer Jordan Kerner (Charlotte’s Web, Inspector Gadget, George of the Jungle) is attached to the sequel. The movie has been performing very well at the box office in 23 markets overseas. Domestically, it grossed $78.8 million in its first ten days at the box office. No news on whether Peyo’s little blue guys—and Smurfette—plan to visit L.A., London or Paris on their next big-screen adventure, but we have a feeling their number one enemy Gargamel (played by Hank Azaria in the first pic) will follow them no matter where they end up!

posted 08-11-201108:34 PM
I wonder the same thing myself...why not just keep the Smurfs in their own time? The original cartoon itself will seem less dated as the years go by than a series of "modern day" Smurf stories, in my opinion.

posted 08-12-201102:59 PM
I would like to see the sequels focus on the Smurfs in their own time period, not time-travelling as was the case for most of Season 9 in the cartoon series (which I find gimmickry and did not save the series from cancellation). I would also like the less emphasis on pop-culture references and crude humor which was an issue among critics including myself.

The sequels need to be better than the current film, not worse and I feel it may be the case.
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posted 08-12-201103:11 PM
I would like to see more of Smurfette as the Action Girl rather than the overly weepy Distressed Damsel that Hanna-Barberra and Lucille Bliss stuck her as. The writers really gave Smurfette some long-needed Girl Power to deal with Azrael by herself.

posted 08-12-201103:19 PM
Well, lets hope Smurfette gets to be like 7 from "9" or Princess Mononoke or like Coraline. I hope she becomes more of a heroine than a damsel in distress. I knew how she fought Azrael. It was Smurfy Awesome!

posted 08-12-201109:58 PM
Hanna-Barbera was pretty much stuck with trying to make Smurfette a main character while trying to keep Peyo happy by not straying too far from his portrayal of her. The modern-day film makers obviously don't have that problem. But making Smurfette into an Action Girl character wouldn't ring true to her established personality, in my opinion.

posted 08-13-201103:28 AM
But nine seasons of a Distressed Damsel with hardly any growth to her character? You might as well have Mario's Princess Peach be put in Smurfette's place in the cartoon show.

posted 08-13-201106:55 AM
I agree that Smurfette is really not much of a character, but there has to be a happy medium between "Distressed Damsel" and the rather annoying "Action Girl"/Girl Power stuff that has clogged up so many kids shows. It'd be trading one stereotype for another.

posted 08-14-201105:48 PM
And about making Smurfette more fearless, well... In some cartoon episodes she had shown some attitude towards a situation, proving not to be a damsel-in-distress or a crybaby all the time. By the way, we'd already discussed about that in the topic Is Smurfette Sexist?. I agree with Debbie concerning a mid-term.

posted 08-15-201103:01 AM
If the Culliford family doesn't seem to have a problem with the producers making Smurfette into an action girl while retaining her original character traits, then that's one change we can comfortably live with. Me, I'm glad Papa Smurf's one-time amorous interest in Smurfette in the comic books is basically dead and buried.

posted 10-27-201105:40 PMquote:Originally posted by MrsHandySmurf: I wonder if handy will be a main character in this wone.........????? I also hope so. Handy is my favourite character too and while I knew he wasn't going to be a main character in the movie, I was still a bit disappointed that he wasn't in it very much. In fact I was disappointed at how none of the other smurfs were really in it very much, I hope they fix that mistake in the sequel.
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posted 10-28-201103:51 AM
Usually the Smurf cartoon episodes have a shifting cast of main characters as well as a character that gets thrown in as the main focus or supporting character for one episode and then gets written out, which is pretty easy to do since most of the Smurfs are just faceless masses. So it's possible that another Smurf may be one of the main characters for the sequel. I'm just hoping they don't reuse Gutsy because he was something of a gimmicky character that got used in place of Hefty for an ethnic copy of his character.

posted 11-01-201106:46 PMquote:Originally posted by VicGeorge2010: Usually the Smurf cartoon episodes have a shifting cast of main characters as well as a character that gets thrown in as the main focus or supporting character for one episode and then gets written out, which is pretty easy to do since most of the Smurfs are just faceless masses. So it's possible that another Smurf may be one of the main characters for the sequel. I'm just hoping they don't reuse Gutsy because he was something of a gimmicky character that got used in place of Hefty for an ethnic copy of his character. The comic stories were much worse, as the main character in the early stories are often nameless and are never heard of again in subsequent stories. I prefer Smurfs to have names and personalities (not steorotypes) than faceless clones which is why I strongly prefer the cartoon episodes than the most of the comic stories.
Posts: 94 | From: Claremont, CA | Registered: Mar 2011

posted 12-18-201102:13 AM
It's good to know that The Smurfs movie will be onestep closer to the original setting in Europe.Not a bad choice for Quebec.If possible i want to take part in the next smurfsmovie not this one a third one.

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